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Returning from a very successful craft show & sale in Victoria - the interest and support from everyone who stopped by our booth is what makes this project so worthwhile. 

I love explaining that plastic bottles turn into soft, durable fleece and nylon  (made into the baby rug pictured - overlooking the ocean in this view from a Victoria clifftop).  We sold out of these great little gifts so it’s back to the sewing machine for me.

Victoria CRD (waste recycle) are looking into wood recycling - the UK has been working on a similar project and LetsRecycle has the latest news.

We are off to sell our re-goodies in the Pearkes Centre  Tillicum,  Xmas Fair this weekend.  Come and say hello!

Plastic bags recycled, warm the cockles of my heart (where does that phrase come from anyway? From my not so extensive word search, this phrase is supposed to have been in use since the 17th century and has to do with the heart shape of a cockle - which is a delicious little bivalve).

Anyway, back to the vases - they are made with coloured plastic bags which are cut up or torn into their cool designs.  A glass jam jar fits inside to hold the flowers.  If the jam jar is tall enough this can become a T light cover…the light flickers through the plastic cover.

If you are a designer, artisan, small business and you use recycled materials, please contact us so we can show your products and a link to your website or location.

Leona makes boxes for jewellery (selling at craft fair stalls and markets ) out of  old calendars.  The paper is heavy and glossy and easy to manipulate.  They are origami boxes and she had no clue how to do it so off she went to Etsy and YouTube and here is the video.

Our circuit board christmas tree ornaments are selling like hotcakes on our ebay store Uniquely Eco.  They make great eco friendly wedding gifts and favors.

Now if we could sell a bazillion of these little guys that would recycle tons of old circuit board.

We also sell ornaments made from recycled tetra paks (juice cartons to the rest of us).  The latest from the UK is that recycled tetrapaks have to go to the main plant in Sweden to be recycled which means transport energy being used.  There used to be a plant in Scotland but that proved not to be cost effective. TetraPak recycling in Canada does not seem to be as problematic, as we have paper mills already in operation due to our huge forestry industry so the structure is already in place to process recycled juice cartons.